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Diameter of erythrocytes in anaemia of infancy and childhood

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    Fifty cases of anæmia in Indian infants had been studied. Of these 39 were simple nutritional anæmia, 7 marasmus, one tuberculous adenitis, one dwarfism, one epidemic dropsy and one intracranial hæmorrhage.

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    Nutritional anæmia is microcytic. One case of macrocytosis was recorded in nutritional variety.

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    Almost in all cases anisocytosis was present (98%).

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    R. Dutt-chaudhuri B.Sc., M.B. & R. Chatterjee M.B.

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Dutt-chaudhuri, R., Chatterjee, R. Diameter of erythrocytes in anaemia of infancy and childhood. Indian J Pediatr 9, 115–120 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02816927

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